OUR CATALOG
My Stolen Planet
A film by Farahnaz Sharifi
Germany/Iran | 2024 | 82 minutes | Color | Persian
Farah, an Iranian woman, was born in 1979 at the end of the Islamic Revolution, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Drawing on personal archives and 8mm archival recordings of strangers' lives, she contrasts moments of private joy with public defiance to show lives of women under the regimented oppression in Tehran.
SYNOPSIS
A collective representation of women’s lives in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the film is also characterized by personal intimacy. The filmmaker’s connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left the country during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of the faces in the archives. And watching her mother suffer with Alzheimer’s, Farah sees first-hand how quickly stories – personal and societal – can be forgotten, motivating her to document her unique history and perspective. A stunning visual collage of dancing and singing contrasted with public acts like burning hijabs in the streets, the film is simultaneously a beautiful reclamation of memory and a brave act of resistance.
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Second Panorama Audience Award, Berlinale Panorama 2024
- German Documentary Music Award 2024, Atena Esthiaghi
- Golden Alexander, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024
- FIPRESCI Award, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024
- Roman Brodmann Preis, Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Europäisches Medienforum
- Audience Award, Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen 2024
- Next Generation Award, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival 2024
- Best Documentary & Youth Jury Award, Festival, Der Neu Heimatfilm, Austria, 2024
- Best Documentary, Innsbruck International Film Festival, Austria 2024
- Germany Documentary Film Music Award, Dok.Fest Münich 2024
- Jean-Loup Passek Award for Best International Feature Length Film, MDOC- Melgaço International Documentary Festival 2024
- Audience Award & Peter Liechti Award, Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel 2024
- Berlinale Panorama, 2024
- CPH: DOX, 2024
- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2024
- Sheffield DocFest, 2024
- IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), 2024
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, 2024
- Bolzano International Film Festival Bozen, 2024
- Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2024
- Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2024
- DOK Leipzig, 2024
- FIDOCS, Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago, Chile
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Farahnaz Sharifi is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker and film editor who was forced to go into exile at the end of 2022. She has graduated from Tehran University in Cinema studies. Her films are mostly based on archives and she uses archive images and film to tell her stories. Farahnaz is also a well known film-editor in Iran. Her recent work as an editor is an acclaimed feature length documentary film “Radiograph of a Family” which won the Best feature length documentary Film Award IDFA 2020 and an Award for creative use of archive IDFA 2020. Farahnaz has received many awards inside and outside of Iran including best film Award in Uppsala Short Film Festival. In addition, she was a jury member at IDFA 2021. Beside her career as a filmmaker and editor, she is also a writer and her book of short stories "Breathing in Open Air" has been published in Iran. (08/09)
Director: Farahnaz Sharifi
Screenplay: Farahnaz Sharifi
Cinematography: Farahnaz Sharifi
Editing: Farahnaz Sharifi
Music: Atena Eshtiaghi
Sound Design: Daniel Wulf
Sound: Farahnaz Sharifi
Producer: Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen & Farzad Pak
Executive Producer: Anke Petersen
Produktion: JYOTI Film Gmbh
Co-Production: PakFilm, Hamburg
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